The hart was once drinking from a pool and admiring the noblefigure he made there. "Ah," Said he, "Where can you see suchnoble horns as these, with such antlers! I wish I had legs moreworthy to bear such a noble crown; it is a pity they are so slimand slight." At that moment a hunter approached and sent an arrowwhistling after him. Away bounded the hart, and soon, by the aidof his nimble legs, was nearly out of sight of the hunter; but notnoticing where he was going, he passed under some trees withbranches growing low down in which his antlers were caught, sothat the hunter had time to come up. "Alas1! alas!" Cried thehart: 
We often despise what is most useful to us. 